Dropped in to the Sydney Leica Store yesterday to pick up an accessory and while chatting with a sales guy learned that sales of the MP are now on hold until the camera conforms to new Australian government safety standards which require that products containing button batteries must have secure battery compartments to prevent children from gaining access to the batteries. According to the ACCC website, in Australia one child a month is seriously injured after swallowing or inserting a button battery, with some of them sustaining lifelong injuries.
genji wrote:
Dropped in to the Sydney Leica Store yesterday to pick up an accessory and while chatting with a sales guy learned that sales of the MP are now on hold until the camera conforms to new Australian government safety standards which require that products containing button batteries must have secure battery compartments to prevent children from gaining access to the batteries. According to the ACCC website, in Australia one child a month is seriously injured after swallowing or inserting a button battery, with some of them sustaining lifelong injuries.
What the what now? If I was Leica I’d say fine, you lot only get the M-A….
Sorry for my absence. A Leica Q2M entered my life and I had to put it through its paces. Then work travel picked up, and naturally I caught the virus on one of those trips.
Roll 076: Delta 3200 in GW690II, developed in DD-X, 1:9 in Simma Sine wave roller. I took the development times from the massive dev chart for 1:4, added 70% to the dev time for the change in concentration, and subtracted 20% for the constant agitation. I need to work on my rinsing technique.
Roll 078: Potsdam Kino in 2000FCW + 110/2 Planar. Developed with the roll above as the developing times were close enough. A terrible practice that I will not repeat. I'll also stop shooting dozens of different film stocks and focus on just ~3 from now on (Delta 100/400/3200), so I can nail down just a few process recipes.
fjablo wrote:
100%! As much fun as a P&S but much more capable (with the right glass). I‘ll definitely keep it around, maybe I‘ll pick up the 40mm 2.8 for it at some point - would almost be pocketable then
haha that's what I did too on a Canon EOS 620 that my friend gifted me. bought the EF 40mm 2.8 and makes it a failry compact camera
